Loremese-suited playing cards

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Loremese-suited playing cards are cards that use the Loremese suits of saula (suns ☀), menses (moons ), ulos (stars ★), and dectores (comets ). Each suit contains 5 face cards: the arvario (peasant or farmer), the eçveitor (knight), the saulico (priest), the orezena (queen), and the orez (king). Apart from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, which often have different deck sizes.

Current standard patterns

Oreino pattern

Arcadian pattern

Card makers from Suntrocolno began exporting to Arcadia around 1520. Local production of playing cards began a century later. In 1681, imported playing cards began to be taxed heavily to protect local manufacturers. In 1710, the Arcadian government started regulating the appearance of the cards used for domestic consumption. This pattern became known as the